Jonas Vingegaard Goes ATTACK MODE | TdF Stage 5 '23

welcome to the butterfly effect I'm Chris Horner this is stage five of the 2023 Tour de France guys sitting on the Chesterfield this is the big first Mountain showdown of the 2023 Tour de France now so far stages one and two uaeet memories have dominated they have the race leaders yellow jersey with Adam Yates and today pagacha are sitting in the white youth jersey is second on the general classification now they've had a good run for the last four stages but when I take you back to stages three and four remember I told you guys yesterday was a little bit weird that those guys were always at the back of the Peloton coming into the finish of that race car track on yesterday with 2.9 kilometers to go while they're racing at the back of the Peloton and you saw Jonas vinigo and jumbo vizmet that front drilling it like crazy of course they had lost wout van art coming onto the circuit because he was about 30 guys back but today pagacha had moved up along the circuit and finished actually in in front of Jonas Vinnie go on yesterday's stage four of the Tour de France now we're going into stage five and this is when you make your mark on the Tour de France you either want to hold your general classification or if you have the legs you want to be aggressive and try to get up the road yesterday stage four was incredibly slow the whole reason it was slow wasn't because stages one and two were hard because stage three wasn't a hard stage stage four was going easy because everybody in the European Peloton doing the Tour de France right now know that stage five is gonna be the big Showdown for a breakaway to get up the road and put some pressure back on the other teams most likely team like UAE Emirates will probably let a breakaway go and possibly even give the race leaders yellow Jersey away here on stage five stage five at 162 kilometers long three categorized climbs one is an HC climb the sudet that climb is 15 kilometers long and we're talking like 7 seven percent now they have a category three that'll sum it with about 38 kilometers to go they'll drop down that and then they're going to start to cold to Mary Blanc this climb at over seven and a half kilometers long and it's a monster in terms of pitches guys we're talking about 8.6 percent average but I've done this climb and I've suffered at the top where it gets really steep it starts off easy when you turn off the main road and then it starts going through the valley starts picking up picking up picking up and then the last Parts have massive percentages of over 10 percent going all the way up to the last Kom that'll sum it with 18 kilometers to go now let's get into the racing because there's a lot of action and guys I cannot cover it all and I cannot do it justice if you have 162 kilometers worth of view and you need to watch it all in slow-mo because there's action happening all over the place but let's get into it the Riders are going to hit kilometers here and we know it's my man Victor camping us a lot of Destiny is going to throw an attack and his teammates with him now Victor campenots is stringing out the Peloton on we know the mo now because I already told you if you don't know it it's going to be a tax all day long until a break gets away a lot of Destinies being super aggressive if education's being aggressive while van art Yambo vismas throwing in attacks early here on stage five and the groups are getting massive in size now with about 140 kilometers to go let me show you as we see is today pagachi are jumping from what's left of the GC favorites they're bridging up to the front group in front of them there so that he can control it this is a trouble marker here if you're watching closely today pagacha should never be jumping across to a move in front of them he should always be following moves or have his teammates in front of them for the uaeet members Big Time General classification favorite to win here at the Tour de France when it's all said and done so when you see him jumping across moves this should set off some red alarms going off in your head now we get under 40 kilometers to go we're at about 35 36 there's front groups up there one big one of about 20 Riders while van Art's in there my man Victor campenots driving it mads pederson's going to town Julian ala Philippe from pseudo quick steps up there it's massive in size and guess what there's a second group coming from behind of like 15 Riders now let's go back to the Peloton just as those two groups are getting away look over there to the left side well that's the race leaders yellow Jersey Adam Yates now look a little bit in front of him to the left side well that's the solarism right there from UA E.T members what does the solarism do when there's a huge group going up the road of about 35 guys in two splits that are going to merge together well the solarism isn't going to pull the Peloton back up to this front group he's going to jump across to it the solarism is the last guy uaeet members to make it up to this front group that merges together with 36 riders in the front group guys I have told you many times on the butterfly effect a lot of times when the group gets big in size it might not gel and you'll see that happen a lot of times but right now uaeet members are in trouble because when I back the camera down there and look at the Peloton that's being pulled from Vegas stock a leg and once we look further back from him it's Mikhail Berg on the side of the road I'll bring you back to 140 kilometers when I told you today forgot you I was jumping across look at the back of the Peloton there that's Mateo trentine this is the problem with the solarism he made a massive mistake we go back up to that group of 36 uaeet members don't only have Solera in there but they got their other climber growth shortener that means there's two guys up there that means Mateo trentine their hard worker on the flats he was sitting back with 140 kilometers to go so you know it's going to take him time to get to the front and it means vegar stock a legging is the only guy left to pull you're not going to put Adam Yates on the front and start drilling this group of 36 guys back you're not going to put today for gacha on the front and have him drill it and Raphael Mike is one of your pure climbers too and like I already told you you had Michael Burke still trying to get back to the back end of the Peloton when all this was going down now let's go up to the group of 36 because the gap's already starting to extend out to about a minute and then I'll show you a couple more mistakes from Solaire and growth shortener they're sitting at the back of a group of 36 writers are you kidding me you're sitting at the back when there's 36 guys and there's three young bovisma guys in there it's the big man Walt van art he was aggressive throughout the beginning of this race and now he's in this group and he's a threat to take the race leaders yellow Jersey probably not a threat to win in Paris so you might not have to worry about him too much but he's got a couple teammates with him he's got Christoph Laporte there and he's got teespanoot now if if uaeet members the solarism and gross sharpener make this front group don't sit at the back at least stay around the Yambo visma guys well the group splits with six guys going up the road and Kristoff laporte's in that group and look back at you a e team Emirates pull it I think that's the solarism and they're doing a big dig to try to pull back these six guys in front what are you doing you don't need to pull this group back there's only six guys you do anything you possibly can to slow down this group of 36 because there's threats all over the place in the general classification and the biggest problem when we do another calculation of who's in this group of 36 well Jai Henley's in there from Borah hansgrove he's got three guys mads pederson's in there and he's got jaconey in there too along with Juan Lopez that's three writers from the same team you go further down there's ag2r they got three Riders on the same team Israel Premier Tech they got two Riders from the same team Lotto Destiny well guess what they got two guys too because I already told you Victor camper knots is up there and then you start looking at EF education they got two guys guys pseudo Quick Step have three guys in this move and Julian ala Philippe Remy cavania and Casper as green are Motors they can pull this thing heavy and hard throughout this whole stage especially when you do the math and go wow there's only 120 25 kilometers left these guys can just each put one teammate on the front and drill it and that's why you need to be perfect if your uaeet members well like I said solarism pulled that group of six back with Christoph Laporte wasn't a threat if I'm the director sportif and I got two guys in there already first off I'd be mad if there's a group of 36 up the road with two of my guys in there and nobody back there the chase but now you got him in there the next best thing you can say when you're talking about your teammates of the solarism and gross sharpener one of you guys stay with teespanu and you go everywhere with them the next Rider stays with wout Van art and you go everywhere with them you don't sit at the back of the group of 36 and then when six guys are riding away with just Kristoff Laporte in there pull it well they pulled it back what happened next WoW van art and Victor camping knots went on a rampage they went up the road and they had two guys for company because mads Pederson from Trex Sager freighter was there and Brian kocard from kofit has jumped across that's four guys drilling it on the front why you would want to work with wout Van art if you're Victor campenots or mats Patterson especially Matt's Patterson because you got jaconi back there you might have been a little bit smarter if you're mad's Pederson and not be such a knucklehead and drop back there and started pulling that group so you could get to Coney who's a threat on the general classification further along in this stage and keep it smooth and steady and steadies up there doing pull for pull without van art now I see their director sportif pull up alongside there of Mads Pederson and we see a conversation and I gotta believe that director sportif is just saying what are you doing up here you got to get out of here but they don't look like they're arguing 100 so maybe both are Knuckleheads I don't know Matt's Pederson is going to keep working in the front group Brian kokard did win the Sprint competition back there and got some points Matt's pet person got second but now they're starting the big HC climb here the sudet now as they're going up to sue day finally behind it was born Hans grow that started doing some work on the front they started working hard with Patrick Conrad as he's on the front but he's not getting much help and you see him getting a little grumpy with some of the other Riders and then come back to the front and start pulling again finally you see mads Pederson get dropped he comes back to the group behind that's chasing up there with Wow van art and Chris and my man Victor campanas and then as mads Pederson comes back look at Juan Lopez there Trek Sega Fredo he looks right over his shoulder the big man Matt Patterson is not even going to do a pull on the front thank you mads Pederson as you're getting dropped off the back already here early in the stage five now Juan Lopez goes to work because he knows he's got chaconi that's a threat on the general classification and a threat to win today stage five if he can hang with Jai Henley and Felix Gaul from ag2r now as we start seeing with Lopez up front pulling like crazy ag2i I'll do a little bit of work too and they'll round up wow van art before the top of this climb and then we start seeing some attacks Felix Gall AG 2R goes on a solo mission to get the Kom points and behind its jaconi chasing with some company they'll go over the top together once they go down to descent we start seeing all the groups start coming back while van art who got caught and dropped he's coming back on with teeth benoot so these two guys don't have much form and Christoph Laporte had already been dropped a long time ago here on stage five as they're coming down The Descent here off to sue day the group is getting back into about 20 riders in size and everything's back together with Felix Gall wrapped back up now we start seeing the next attack it's Chris nylons nylons from Israel Premiere text going solo up the road he'll take maximum points on the category three clamps so he's not going to get much and when we look behind it's ag2r that's doing some work we go all the way back to the Peloton and what was happening back there we're going up to sue day that was when the solarism got wise and at least dropped out of this front group Felix goroshartner will drop out eventually too and he'll go back to the group back there but when we start looking at the Peloton back there pulling up the category three with the solarism on the front take a look at the face of Mikhail Burke he is suffering big time now solarism has to keep going because they can't let this Gap get too much bigger because it's already around four minutes it been killed at about three three and a half and moved up to four and then dropped back down to three and a half but solarism's doing everything he can and and Mikhail Berg is suffering like crazy now up front once they come off the category three through the valley wow van art gonna throw an attack Julie and ala flips gonna go with wild van art and they're gonna Bridge up to Chris nylons from Israel Premier Tech and they'll start the final climb here called the Mary Blanc with about a 30 second gap on the group behind ag2rs not having any of it because Felix go remember him toward a Swiss he was on fine fantastic Farm we're on a stage we're the race leaders jersey there now he's trying to shine here at the Tour de France for ag2r with those guys driving on the front they got some help from Omar Fraley who's putting on a show going deep because he's got a teammate Danny Martinez that's in the group too so inyos who's pulling heart ag2rs pulling hard and the Gap is coming down to wow van art now we look back behind this UA team Emirates on the front they're starting to drive it Solaire has come off the front Rafa Micah's there for you at E.T member it's drilling it up this last and final climb for stage five Yambo visma Got Five Guys wrapped around Jonas vanago and set custom American is doing a show here at stage five riding at the front he's a little bit invisible on yesterday's stage four three even two he was invisible but he's not invisible at the beginning here if called the Mary blunt as Yambo visma got some faith for Jonas finnego up front that's falling apart all over the place with the acceleration from ag2r after they wrapped up while van r Chris nylons and Julian alafay for pseudo Quick Step ag2rs drilling it now Claremont he wants to put on a show he's got his teammate Felix goal on his wheel then we got two Borah Hans grow Riders just behind them followed by Martinez these guys are throwing in big time and we'll see Clermont go all the way about halfway up this climb then he'll pull off hard left as we see the big acceleration come in from Felix golf Felix golf accelerated so hard nobody can follow him except for one guy it's guy Henley that my friend is the 2021 Gerald Italia Champion he is sitting second wheel locked on to Felix golf from ag2rs these two guys are swapping off turns putting time on to everyone we start get looking back at the Peloton behind well just as Raphael Micah was coming off the front yumbo vizma decided to take over except Kush he's told to go to work now for Jonas Van Gogh who must have some good form now guys if I back the film up just a little bit before this final and last I'm called the Mary block and throughout the earlier climbs here on stage five today pagachar wants this group of 36 went up the road when you're in this scenario you need to just stay calm you need to relax and you need to think what is the most important thing I have to worry about here on stage five well the same thing you did in the last year's Tour de France on stage 11 stay with Jonas vinigo at all costs nobody else matters so the fact that we're on cold the Mary block the fact that Jai Henley is going up the road he's got enough time Gap there with a couple minutes to be able to put himself in the race leaders yellow Jersey and be a threat to win this year's Tour de France in 2023 you can't worry about that it's too late uaeet memories solarism at 138 kilometers to go blew that all up when he jumped up the left side of the road and didn't pull this group of 36 back so the whole time today forgot you I hope you just thought the whole time on stage five here my most important Mission stay hydrated stay out of of the wind stay on the wheel of my teammates stay smooth stay consistent and make sure you have enough calories to go over this climb so you can ride with the best in the world and make sure you stay on the wheel of Jonas finagle now like I said septkus is going full gas and guess what he runs in the wild van art while van art looks back he gets on the front and starts doing a massive pull he's hurting everyone in that group we see inyo's Riders going out the back aegon Bernal had some help there from Jonathan Castro Viejo to keep the Gap close but he's getting gapped off anyways then while van Arts done with his turn set Kush throws in a hard acceleration it's blowing it up guys there's only four guys in the front GC favorites septkus Jonas vinigo tari pagacho Carlos Rodriguez from inyos is having a fantastic ride here going up the last climb called the Mary Blanc here on stage five of the Tour de France we go up front to see what's happening with the two Riders well Jai Henley decided it was time to stop playing around he threw an attack on Felix Gall and now he's going solo here on stage 5 life trying to win the stage and take the race leaders yellow Jersey we go back down and we start seeing that sep Kush is starting to round out his turn and now it's time Jonas vinegar throws in attack goes up the left side today picachar goes around the right there except Kush the American writer he can't get out of the saddle but Jonas Vinny goes out of the saddle going full gas on the pedals he'll look right over his shoulder see what kind of Gap he's got he's got it so he stays on the gas he's going through the the original Breakaway Riders left and right dodging them all over the place almost hit one of the parked cars on the side there the kids a little look at the director sportif like that was maybe not the perfect parking spot but he doesn't slow down he stays on the gas camera goes back down to today for gotcha UAE team members who's starting to see his race lead start the drop here as Jonas van goes going away up to cold to Mary blunt now as Jonas being it goes catching Riders all over the place we're going to go all the way up to the top of the Kom where Jai Henley's going solo over the top we look further down down the hill Felix Gall is going to go second over the Kom we look further back behind that well it's jaconic chacony's doing everything he can and he's got manual book man Borah Hans grow on his will now Manuel Brooklyn is not going to do any pulling right because Jai hindley's up the road so you know manual Bookman sitting on we see jaconi chasing going over the top of the Kom going full gas and then Jonas vanago who is blown through the remnants of the Breakaway guys is flying over the top of the Kom making up time on Jai Henley he'll cross the top with about a minute gap on Jai Henley and then we look further back today for gotcha's losing about 30 40 seconds to Jonas vinigo as he goes over the top solo we go back further behind today gotcha there's bodies all over the place luckily we're at the Tour de France because they got cameras everywhere so we can see most of the action and when we go further back it's the Yates Brothers It's Simon Yates Adam Yates back there and it's go do Davy Doo who's climbing over the top of the Kom trying to save his GC he hopes here with the two Yates Brothers sitting on his wheel that can't pull at this moment they got some more company of those they drop down The Descent it'll start coming back together up front Jonas vanago is flying he catches Tacony he catches manual Bookman we go up front Jai Henley's flying through the corners we go just behind him Felix calls doing the same thing but Jonas vanagos going so fast he's gonna catch him with about five kilometers to go as he's catching Felix Gall he's thinking at this time maybe maybe Felix skull gave me some help you see him look over he's asking for some help Felix golf's like man I've been in the break all day long I can't do anything except for sit on because you are the tgv up here as Jonas Van Gogh knows he's not getting any more help he tries to look for some more still from jaconic he looks back trying to get some from Tacony but chicone is not going to pull because skillmos is back there with tare pagachar because today Picacho just got caught from a group from behind with his teammate in there Adam Yates Yates catches them we see fdj have two riders in this group with go do and mad was who was up in the front break originally here on stage five is back now he's pulling that group's gonna swell even a little bit better bigger because I told you skill most got on now you got 10 guys back there and they're rotating with today pagacha let's go back up to the front because Jay Henley like I said Coming Down The Descent bombing through the corners had one little close call about 10 kilometers to go but now we're getting into one kilometer to go and you know Jai Henley's gonna win today stage five he'll celebrate coming across the line arms out kisses to the crowd little pounding fist bumps in the air everything as he celebrates his first Tour de France Victory and his first appearance at the Tour de France along with that guys he's going to take the race leaders yellow Jersey when we look further back Jonas pulling in his group all the way into the line but chicone is going to start a massive Sprint he's going to get second on the stage Felix grosshard in third so no time bonifications there for Jonas vinegar on today's stage and he'll Gap off just about two seconds off that group but let me show you this next picture he's throwing the bike trying to get maximum time here at the line because he knows today pagachi are still chasing back there I told you today pagacha had some help as Adam Yates came on Simon Yates came on fdj came on they're all rotating through when they come up to the line today but gotcha cannot even get on the front to pull he finishes about second or third in that group on today's stage but he'll lose time and Jonas vinegar will drop into second place on the general classification after today's stage Jai Henley who took the stage and the race Leader's yellow Jersey he is in a firm position in the GC he's got a 42nd 47 second Gap excuse me on Jonas vanago and then you got to go back to about 140 to today pagacha now it's not over and said and done when I dissect today's tactics I told you uaeet members were terrible Yambo visma they put pressure on uaeet members and they fell for it and they started drilling it when all they really had to do up there is just keep their climber growth sharpener there with welt van art sitting on his wheel and of course Cape Solaire sitting on taste bernut's wheel and don't do anything they wouldn't have to do any work instead everybody got tired from uaeet members from doing big time pulls Jonas vinegar Who's down on the general classification in second but it's not much right Jai Henley is a Gerald Italia winner so we got a juror winner gonna battle against a Tour de France last year's winner Jonas fenugo and then today pagachio has some time to make up but it's only about 53 seconds to Jonas finnego and of course over a minute minute and 30 there on Jai Henley from Borah hansgro Borah Hans girls are set up kind of nicely in the general classification because the manual bookman's in there too so they got a couple cards to play here after today's stage five but what happened to Tade pagacha well when you look at his ride you gotta believe he didn't quite have that same Tade pagacha form that we were looking at in years past and in races passed stage one's stage two he looked good but you look at stage three why was UA team Emirates all the way at the back it was a strange call I know I saw Adam Yates say in the in the conference afterwards when he's getting interviewed that hey we wanted to take it easy on these stages but I start to ask myself could today pagacha have a little bit of stomach bug or be a little bit sick on stages three and four and that might explain why UAE team Emirates are at the back I don't know maybe I'm just guessing here certainly their tactics were terrible here on today's race and the solarism started them all off when he jumped and didn't pull that group back when there was nobody else left because when the beginning of the race is rolling like this and going up some little Hills I mean we saw Fabio Jacobson who crashed on yesterday's stage four we saw him getting dropped about 10K into the stage and we saw a lot of the other sprinters come out the back so you know it's fast and Mateo trentine is not that type of Rider to be able to pull when you got those small little climbs going up at the beginning so when you lose a mark Soler and Felix gross sharpener that means that Gap is going to extend because vegar stuck a leg and it's not going to be super strong when the climb's going up and Mikhail Berg was on the side of the road changing bikes so big time mistakes here tactically but but that still does not explain what happened to Tade pagacha after the race he said in the interview that he felt good but Jonas vanago just went faster it still doesn't quite add up when you look at it because today gotcha going over the top of the cold the Mary Blanc solo normally the Slovenian would bomb down that descent and there's no way anyone could do anything to bring him back but instead he's getting brought back from the group behind that hat Adam Yates who's sitting on of course but Simon Yates is in there and of course the Frenchman davidego do if they can bring him back something has to be wrong because he's not riding 100 you could say maybe his training from his fractured wrist or broken wrist has lost them some form and maybe he went too hard on stage one or maybe he didn't come into this tour with the right kind of form that we're used to the scene from Talia pagacha because the broken wrist or maybe just maybe stages three and four he had a stomach ache or some kind of little bug and he's not quite a hundred percent doesn't make sense that on stages three you had 18 members were riding at the back the whole time I've never seen that before from today pagacha and it makes no sense that we would have seen it on three and four so if I was one of the journalists there at the Tour de France go up to today but gotcha and ask him if he's been 100 healthy on three and four and here on stage five either way we got a battle it's not blown out but today but gotcha has to come back to that magical form that we're used to seeing from the Slovenian otherwise Jonas vinegar and Jai Henley look like they're the two big favorites here in the 2023 Tour de France and I might just have to change my top five list on the butterfly effect like And subscribe and I'll see you guys on the next Edition for the next Big Mountain Stage of the Tour de France for stage six like And subscribe and 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Length: 26min 2sec (1562 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2023